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Hi, I'm trying to match my forward testing with backtesting in MT4. Although I have nice match, there is something which I don't understand. Often I get #requote error while opening a position while in Live trading (even on real account), the position was opened sucessfuly. Where this #requote...

As far as backtesting goes, can anyone compare and contrast MT3 and MT4 results, usefullness, and any reasons to believe one may be more closely reflect actual trades.

any one else have this problem, and what is your solution/or work around? I find myself clicking the mouse several times to select text located near a trend line, and it doesn't ever want to select it. Very frustrating

Hi, I have an expert on mt4 and I would like to change it for the mt3.What do I have to change in the expert 4 ?Do I have to make big changes or it is simple to do ? Thank you

MQ, Right now, you have MarginLevel set to display the percentage value of FreeMargin/MarginUsed. Which ends up giving some percentage of a thousand or more. The very concept of percentage was to normalize values to between 0 and 100. Why not have MarginLevel set to MarginUsed/FreeMargin. This...

Will Metatrader 4 ever have additional or customizable timeframes?

Hi Codersguru, It is certainly a lot of dedication to put out the free tutorial on mql4. Many thanks. Can you help with this, please? I have been trying to combine the Highest() function with the High[] array without much success. My problem is with the last two parameters of the Highest()...

In the MQ help function on the charts they have listed the Detrended price Oscillator - DPO. I would like to add this indicator to my indicators list but it is not listed in the charts drop down menu can you please help me this.

Hi, If I set the slippage parameter in my MQL4 code to 300 pips and ask my forex broker to allow slippage of up to 300 pips for my account, then I should never see a "price requote" message ever (unless of course the price slipped 300 pips in less than 1-2 seconds which is extremely rare). Why do I

Hi, Please ignore this query. It cant be done due to problem with requotes

HERE IT IS.CHECK THE RESULTS OF BACKTESTING.THESE ARE VERY INTERESTING,BUT I THINK,IT HAD A MISTAKE.MAY BE,ANYBODY WILL TEST IT?BEST TIME FRAMES ARE H1 ON EURUSD and GBPUSD.

This thread is for those who use trendline and divergence strategies in their trading. If you have any indicators that show divergence on RSI, MACD etc please post, any EAs that trade using divergences or trendline s are welcome. I suggest we also share screen shots on trendline breaks and

Hello, I am trying to log into my MT3 account from Excel by using VBA and mtapi.dll but cannot make it work. My declaration is: Private Declare Function MtConnect Lib "mtapi.dll" (ByVal handle As Integer, ByVal server As String, ByVal port As Integer) As Integer and then I am calling the function...

Hello, It is possible to convert mq4 indicator to MetaStock ? Thank You day_trader

Volatility Trailing Stop indicators.

Eur/Usd h1 Default settings but: TP 200 SL 100 What about you jdun, what are your results? Sada

Current date format used in History Center is yyyy.mm.ddd I would recommend that the export history data use one of the following format dd/mm/yyyy, ddmmyyyy, dd-mm-yyyy mm/dd/yyyy, mmddyyyy, mm-dd-yyyy These formats are widely used in many other analysis software, eg: Excel, Matlab. The problem I

I just play arround with MACD-Simple. May somebody can help adding stoploss command and increasing lot in trade? i'm poor in programming. regard, PluT0

It is something about RSI and SMA created by Igor. See explanation here.

Moving Slope Rate of Change indicator created by Fxtraderusa. See this thread on how to use it.

If would be nice (like the horizontal line) to be able to select from the tool bar, an alarm line and be able to slide it around on the chart. This would make for easier modification (just slide to a new position), and visually to see it in place. You could add an alarm line properties to make...

I am hoping someone can help me with this. I am using MT4, build 186. I am trying to have an email sent to my cell phone when an alert is triggered on my chart. I have custom indicators on my chart and they trigger an audible alert in little alert window. That part is good. Under...

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Hello, I'm just wondering if there are any program like FishermanZeroCode thats not generating .mql but .mt4 insted? I'm reading and learning about coding myself but that will take some time. And i really like ZeroCode exept for that it doesnt generate .mt4, and there is a little more thats is...

Hi guys, I am able to setup different indicators in the same window in MT4 PPC (pocketpc). But no luck in setting up CCI6 and CCI14 in the same window. Anyone know how to do this? Also, I would like to see custom indicators and EA's available to run on the PPC version of MT4. Thanks

Hello, Just getting started and having a hard time trying to code indicator when the histogram bars cross the zero line. i have the sendEmail() working but can not nail down the logic to check when histogram bars cross. If you could please provide a code snippet that would be awesome. Thanks in

I am just wondering that is there any functions or standard outputs that I can use for my EA optimization results? eg: Can I get Profit as an output of a function, so I can get all these factors in my programme, instead of using copy and paste in the Optimization Results tab. Pass Profit...

I want to officially report to MQ that the iMAOnArray function is broken, but before I do, can anyone verify that my test code isn't the problem? I believe this script when dropped on a chart should return three identical values, but the iMAOnArray method doesn't match....